Regional variation in the intensity of fish predation on tethered brittle stars and crabs was measured at 30-33 m depths in the rocky subtidal zone at seven sites representing coastal and offshore regions of the Gulf of Maine, USA. Analysis of covariance comparing the slopes of brittle star survivorship curves followed by multiple comparisons tests revealed five groupings of sites, with significantly greater predation rates in the two offshore than in the three coastal groups. Brittle stars tethered at the three offshore sites were consumed primarily by cod, Gadus morhua, with 60-100% prey mortality occuring in 2.5 h. In striking contrast, only 6-28% of brittle star prey was consumed in the same amount of time at the four coastal sites, which were dominated by cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus. In several coastal trials, a majority of brittle star prey remained after 24 h. The pattern of higher predation offshore held for rock crabs as well with only 2.7% of tethered crabs consumed (n=36) at coastal sites versus 57.8% of crabs (n=64) consumed at offshore sites. Another important predatory fish, the wolffish, Anarhichas lupus, consumed more tethered crabs than brittle stars. Videos and time-lapse movies indicated that cod and wolffish were significantly more abundant at offshore than at coastal sites. Three hundred years of fishing pressure in New England has severely depleted stocks of at least one important benthic predator, the cod, in coastal waters. We speculate that this human-induced predator removal has lowered predation pressure on crabs and other large mobile epibenthos in deep coastal communities. Transect data indicate that coastal sites with few cod support significantly higher densities of crabs than offshore sites with abundant cod.

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Regional variation in fish predation intensity: a historical perspective in the Gulf of Maine.

This essay is an interim report on a long-term study of the chimera of the great American novel—the dream either of writing it or seeing it written. The project has three main facets: a chronicle of the dispensations of authorial, critical, and readerly pronouncements (a story with a distinct beginning, several middles, and no end); a historical-formalist comparative examin- ation of several dozen aspirants and/or nominees; and a nation-and-narration metaperspective conceptualizing "American" narrative, in broadest terms, as part of a world system inflected by what Pascale Casanova calls the "Herder effect" (78- 81), the pos- tulate of each nation speaking in its own voice, within and against which its writers must thereafter contend, even such resolute cos- mopolitans as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.

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The Unkillable Dream of the Great American Novel: Moby-Dick as Test Case

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as science fiction and mystery novels - in the creation of the literary tradition One of the original features of this book is the dialogue between the essays, highlighting cross-currents between authors and their works as well as across historical periods While offering a narrative of the development of the genre, the History reflects the multiple methodologies that have informed readings of the American novel and will change the way scholars and readers think about American literary history

The Cambridge history of the American novel

The nomination acceptance addresses of recent presidential candidates constitute a significant aspect of an American political ritual. These addresses might be termed a “modern jeremiad”; because they conform to the jeremiad tradition in American rhetoric. Like the Puritan jeremiad which was central to a religious ritual, the modern jeremiad continues to function rhetorically as a means for interpreting the meaning of America's past and unifying the audience around a shared vision of America's future.

American political rhetoric and the jeremiad tradition: Presidential nomination acceptance addresses, 1960–1976

1 'The best man of all': mythologies of the storyteller 2 When good speech acts go bad: the voice of industrial fiction 3 Speech on paper: Charles Dickens, Victorian phonography, and the reform of writing 4 'Done to death': Dickens and the author's voice 5 Unuttered: withheld speech in Jane Eyre and Villette 6 'Hell's masterpiece of print': voice, face, and print in The Ring and the Book 7 A voice without a body: the phonographic logic of Heart of Darkness

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Everett Emerson

Papers

"Huckleberry Finn" As Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time

The Complete Works of Captain John Smith. 3 vols.

In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America.

Providence & Patriotism in Early America 1640-1815.

American Literature, 1764-1789: The Revolutionary Years.